A career to me is a means to an end, it just enables me to live the life that I want to live so I don't want to rely on getting lucky on the lottery, I'd rather just get the career almost over you know over with, out the way, a bit like I felt with university. If I can do well, achieve what I need to achieve, to live the life I want, then I'll be happy and my career's been a success and that does not mean multi millionaire, it just means not being too concerned about bills, not worrying too much if I can afford this that and the other, not living on yachts or anything. It's just being comfortable, just sort of not being one of the people where, you know, not being on the breadline. Just there in a house that's comfortable with a car which works and you know and that's what it means to me.
And at the moment my career is completely dictated by me which is nice. I don't have to meet deadlines if I don't want to. I can set myself them. If I miss them it's my fault only, I've only got myself to blame, it's a great position to be in. I've got a sort of member of staff and I've got to maintain him and look after him so yeah I definitely feel like my career is going well and it is important, it is important.
I think a lot of people I know have floated between odd jobs after university, they've temped and they've claimed to be looking for their perfect job first time round. I think that's naïve, you shouldn't do that, you should get yourself on the ladder, get some experience under your belt. I feel a degree gets you on the ladder, gets you to the next step so I'm trying to tell these people, you know some people I think they know that and they just don't want to listen. So for me a career is definitely on the up and it's important, it's good to have a goal in that sense because then you know what you're wanting to achieve. If you just aimlessly float through jobs you'll end up being thirty five/forty and wondering where the time went. I'm definitely not going to be that person.
